According to a Vanguard report Lagos is the fourth worst city in the world, Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU, an independent forecasting and advisory business within the Economist Group has said.
And its top worst cities, are scattered around Africa and Asia. Lagos, the fourth on the list, shares its 137 position with Port Moresby, in Papua New Guinea on 38.9 per cent.
The report made available yesterday described it as the second-fastest growing city in Africa and the fourth worst city on earth.
“Rapid growth is not always a good thing because Lagos is now a magnet for two perpetual threats to peace: pirates and Islamist warriors.
Boko Haram have a problem with cities like Lagos and also lots of weaponry. Pirates threaten trade and use kidnapping as a method of funding. Islamist terrorist groups such as Boko Haram (“Education is forbidden”) want to create their own version of heaven on earth by destroying cities such as Lagos and imposing strict sharia law. Lagos has enormous potential but as yet little to show for it – hence its poor ranking,” the report said.
EIU in its 2013 annual survey of the world’s 140 major metropolises, said Lagos has a long way to go politically, socially and economically before it joins the emerging market club.
*who agrees with this report?
Eko o ni baje ooo!
ReplyDeleteChoiii .. If lagos is the 4th ... Then Aba will be wetin ... Lwkmh ooo
DeleteEyimba city (Aba) will be 1st
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DeleteI have travelled a lot and I have seen way worse cities than Lagos. Infact cities in Syria nko? Even Detroit is an eyesore. What about cities in those small countries that keep migrating to Nigeria. Liberia, Benin rep, cotonou etc. Pls gone are the days when the white man will come into our country and say rubbish and we all accept ignorantly. Our eye don open oh.
Deleteis that so????
ReplyDeleteIssokay!
#Fashola is still working.
They should shift abeg. There is nothing I can relate to in this report.
ReplyDeleteAll these foreign reports are pure gibberish. The parameters they usual berth upon are quite subjective. Who told them that Boko Haram is a threat to the city of Lagos? They should stop all these bullocks!
ReplyDeleteI don't agree...bt atleast na city....the report is biased and based on lagos as nigeria and not a state within Nigeria.
ReplyDeleteThey should geraway joor. This our gengencious Lagos. Eko baje ti.
ReplyDeleteEko o ni baje ooo!!!! Dats lagos 4 u.
ReplyDeletei do not agree with this report.
ReplyDeleteBig Lie...infact Biggest Lie
ReplyDeleteMtschew....and some people will come here and agree with this stupid report...Fashola is working,lagos is moving.Eko baje ti meeen.
ReplyDeleteRubbish report!
ReplyDeletePirates in lagos???
Islamic war in lagos???
Crap shit
As in?????
DeleteNonsense report!
issokay!
ReplyDeletemy soup is burning.
I have never heard of anything Boko haram in lagos.I would agree with the other points abt fast growing but BH no way except if every armed robbery or kidnap is written as Boko Haram by the NPF
ReplyDeleteYou fucking idiots! Ofcourse it isone of the worst cities in the world. Do I have to spell it out for you.
ReplyDelete1 When your govt stops embezzling your money and gives you 24 hours electricity then maybe you stand a chance of it being better.
2 . Lack of proper sanitation
3. lack of proer infrastructure again money in pockets of the fucking president.
4. Roads
5Traffic no proper traffic system
6.Public Transportation.
7. Your veichle emissions are not propperly controld as veichle MOT's are probably none exitent.
8. It is just plain dity.
9. half of the place is sinking and you have not realised.
i could go on and on. But whats the point. it is a mess and you know it!!!
Jolorsy oooo. You are igbo Shebi? Don't worry, I wii teh Fashola to put you inside trailer for night and go and dump you at uppiweka(upper iweka) you wii see. You are here sharping mouth abi?
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DeleteIf you have ever been abroad b4 then u would cover ur faces in shame 4 lagos ... I live in d u.s & my last visit 2 Nigeria drove me crazy ... Lagos is so dirty & its really stinky , d moment I got out of d plane I nearly passed out !!!!! The air alone can kill , & then on my way 2 my friends place in lekki d traffic almost drove me crazy , people hawking goods on d road , beggars chasing cars , mad people on d streets , d trash cans were not emptied , d traffic lights were faulty , cops harassing residents & residents getting physical with eachother , motor bikes and tricycles being used 4 commercial purposes , poor road networking , d internet doesn't work , d mobile phones service providers be acting up all d f**k**g time , every1 there is a f**k**g scam ...... & d few places i visted made me sick .... D island I heard was okay is a f**k**g junk yard & y'all 's is so f**k**g up tight & d power is always out 23 hrs in 24 hrs , & whyyy ? & now y'all's is mad cause lagos ranked 4th ???? Miami is one of d poorest cities in america but no place in Nigeria can compare !!! & y'all's is saying something ?? Dannggg !!!! y'all better shut it ... I'm american & I'm nigerian 2 but f**k nigeria cause it aint never gonna get better till y'all accept d fact dat its messed up ................... & oh yh b4 I drop it , let me make dis clear NIGERIA BELONGS 2 GOD & NO DIRTY TRIBE SO D IGBO'S & D YORUBA'S BETTER STFU ... & if black folks ever become slaves again den guess what ????? Every Nigerian is gonna be a part of it cause we all re fucking black people , so quit d stupid tribal b.s y'all trynna start ....... Xoxo
DeleteOMG! Bukkybaby, i just love ur response,u gat me cracking up here.
DeleteAnony 7.07pm. We will not drop you at upper Iweka. Na Borno state we dey carry you go so you can contend live with Boko Haram. Go back to ur village, we don't need negative people like you in Lagos. No proper traffic system abi? Join Lastma. Rubbish.
DeleteAnon 3:18AM, you are a f**k**g retard with a f**k**g mentality, a f**ked up slave already with a f**ked up septic tank of a buccal cavity that nothing good can ever come out from. You are a f * * k * *g waste to your generation and that which is to come because you are neither here nor there as you neither know your left from your right.
DeleteGet lost already you fucked up homosapien.
Finally, know this, if you like, you can be a citizen of Mars, every body and I mean EVERY SINGLE PERSON in Nigeria is better than you.
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Delete4th City oon what basis? Whats the parameter for d listing? Is it in terms of cleanliness, poverty, abi crime?
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I have heard!
ReplyDeleteThis report is a biased report. LAGOS is a nice city if they will be getting governors like Fashola God knows what LAGOS will look like in the next five years.
ReplyDeleteOde, did u read the article? They never used those parameters you listed idiot1
ReplyDeleteJust the 4th? Really? It should be the 1st or the 2nd with all the issues facing that country. Even we Nigerians know it ourselves. The truth is bitter.
ReplyDeleteThey got it all twisted along the way. What do you expect of reports from an onlooker fro far away. You have to ~live it, to know it~ in other words they should come live in Lagos...
ReplyDeleteGoogle or AOL search -Step into my room + Gidilounge
I don't blame people saying the report is biased . Am sure you haven't been out of Nigeria and see a proper city with the basic amenities ordinary water we do not have not talk of electricity etc. It has noting to do with tribal it is the had truth and fact. Suffering and smiling Fela don talk am.
ReplyDeleteSo Mr "Been to other Cities" this is the English u learnt with all your travelling. Abeg take several seats jare!!! Mtchew. On to the next one!!!!!!
DeleteI always wonder when "I'm" became "am". Bad English everywhere.
DeleteOhon ohon!
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I don't agree!!!
ReplyDeleteAnon 24, u banged on
ReplyDeleteLagos is 4th right? Is the 1st worse than Aba, Jalingo, Ibadan, Warri, Onitsha, Kano, Bussa, ijebu-Ode, ....should I go on? Fourth indeed. Where did this people get the nod to rate world cities? Trash, trasher, trashest.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't that tell you that all the places u mentioned are villages not cities by international standards lol!!!
DeleteDon't agree simply becos their argument is lame.
ReplyDeleteBoko haram isn't too bothered about Lagos in their last 3 years of causing havoc.
If they say overpopulated and traffic infested I agree but not worst!
This is how nigerians foolishly reject foreign unbiased assessment only to face the reality in a short while. Trust Fashola willtake the report seriously and take a pragmatic approach to it, ensuring that measures are taken to keep Lagos truly on track, short of this trash expressed by these uninformed naija people.
ReplyDeleteu cant assess lagos base on terrorism .... TERRORISTS ARE NOT HERE....
ReplyDeleteWho has read Ese's blog? She don give the evidence to a respected minister of God. Whatever that means.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you effing expect????
ReplyDeleteOh pls! This is all bullocks! If the parameters they r using are pirates and boko haram;then they shld take several seats! So far there has been no boko haram issue in Lagos,except in the nothern states. The issue of pirates mainly occurs in the territorial waters of the south south and other african countries! Please these pple should stop coming up with silly reports!
ReplyDelete.Abeggi 4th what?they should please spare us their nonsense analysis.Lagos is one of best cities in the world for low,middle & high earners.so what about abuja?is it safer than Lagos in terms of boko?mtseeeew.they should face their problems & allow us to grow
ReplyDeleteLagos is bad. London on the other hand is very expensive, unfriendly, extremely selfish and pretentious. A place where you spend so much on taxes, your entire life is defined by work and taxes. Soulless, Cold, Dark and Lonely place.
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